[ April 19, 2024 ]
If the Southern Poverty Law Center were really about southern poverty, it would be using these millions to alleviate the suffering of poor people in the South. But it isn’t, of course. The SPLC is only about smearing legitimate groups with the “hate” label, in an avowed attempt to destroy all groups that aren’t far-left.
“The Ivory Spires of the SPLC ‘Poverty Palace,’” by Jacob Grandstaff, Capital Research Center, September 11, 2017:
The Washington Free Beacon exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-appointed hate group monitor infamous for lumping mainstream conservative nonprofits alongside legitimate hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, keeps millions of dollars in multiple offshore accounts.
Story continues below advertisementSPLC tax forms from 2014 reveal that in one year, the 501(c)3 nonprofit transferred nearly $5.5 million to multiple bank accounts in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. The bulk of these financial transfers occurred on March 1, 2015, in which two separate transfers were made to two accounts at the same address in Canana Bay, Cayman Islands.
Amy Sterling Casil, CEO of Pacific Human Capital, a California-based nonprofit consulting firm told the Free Beacon that she had never heard of a US-based nonprofit that deals with human rights or social services having foreign bank accounts. “It is unethical for any US-based charity to invest large sums of money overseas,” she said, adding “I know of no legitimate reason for any US-based nonprofit to put money in overseas, unregulated bank accounts.”
Charles Ortel, a former Wall Street analyst and financial adviser known for uncovering a 2009 financial scandal at General Electric also expressed surprise, noting: “It seems extremely unusual for a 501(c)(3) concentrating upon reducing poverty in the American South to have multiple bank accounts in tax haven nations.”
The SPLC pays its staff surprisingly well. In 2015, the organization spent $20 million on salaries, but only spent $61,000 on legal services. This, despite boasting of a staff of 75 lawyers for the purpose of litigating on behalf of “children’s rights, economic justice, immigrant justice, LGBT rights, and criminal justice reform.” The minimum it paid officers, directors, trustees, or key employees, in base salary in 2015 was $140,000—this in Alabama, a state where the mean salary for religious and education directors (which includes private school principals) was $40,820 in 2015. SPLC president and CEO Richard Cohen was paid $346,218 in base compensation, while SPLC founder and chief trial counsel Morris Dees earned $329,560 in compensation, and $42,000 in additional reportable non-taxable benefits.
While the SPLC began with a legitimate mission to tackle hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, it proved so successful that it effectively ran out of hate groups. Seeking a new mission (and source of funding), the group evolved into a far-left outfit intent on smearing any group which disagrees with them as a “hate group.” Because of its history, the SPLC enjoys a reputation with the mainstream media as self-styled hate group experts that it no longer deserves. After the riots in Charlottesville on August 12, CNN ran a wire story entitled: “Here are all the active hate groups where you live.” The story included a map with 917 organizations that the SPLC considers hate groups, including mainstream, conservative, pro-family organizations like Family Research Council (FRC) and the Ruth Institute….
Forty-seven individuals and groups, including CRC president Scott Walter, have recently signed an open letter to media outlets, asking them to stop using data from the “discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.”
The attempt by SPLC to silence conservative critics on issues such as gay marriage by lumping them in with legitimate hate groups can have potentially fatal consequences. Floyd Lee Corkins II, who shot an unarmed security guard at the FRC in 2012, claimed to be on a mission to kill “as many people as possible.” He claims to have identified the FRC as “anti-gay” based on information from the SPLC’s website….
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16 Comments
6 years ago
SPLC has an agenda, the same agenda as thousands of other Liberal ‘Charities’ helping to enrich,… THEMSELVES !!!
6 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Not to mention funding the groups such as Antifa, BLM, Bamn, etc. that serve as the left’s brown shirts.
6 years ago
SPLC is a pro-islam . pro-jihadi hate group that targets patriots who expose jihadi crimes. All they have is fake news, Lies.
Here’s a Hilarious fake news CNN style “Trump steals food from black kid” and some great info too http://bit.ly/2wFirQA
6 years ago
The $PLC should be btought up on racketeering/RICO charges.
6 years ago
Reply to
Gizmo
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6 years ago
Reply to
Gizmo
Google is paying 97$ per hour,with weekly payouts.You can also avail this.
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6 years ago
splc is very good at suckering poor people who think that the only way they can “fight the man” is by contributing cash to an organization that is big enough to do so. The reason the poor are often poor is that they have no concept of how work and effort function. They, like a lot of democrats, socialists and other imbeciles, think that by taking from those who have something they worked for, and giving it to those who are constant beggars, that is social justice, That is stupidity.
6 years ago
Such a corrupt organization should not be entitled to the right to brand and attack so many other groups and individuals.
6 years ago
If there is any group that belongs on their “Hatewatch” list,it’s THEM !
Semper Fi
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On the list
6 years ago
Reply to
Midniterider
Yeah, that’s how the left works. They accuse people and orginizations they disagree with of doing the very thing they’re doing; it’s called deflection. It takes the eye off them (they think).
6 years ago
Reply to
Robert Batchelor
I totally understand that Robert and have been trying to tell people for some time that IF you want to know just WHAT the leftards are about just look at WHAT they accuse others of being and doing….
Russian COLLUSION? Uh,lets start with Hitlery selling off 1/4 of our URANIUM supply to them…
Semper Fi
http://www.silverbulletgunoil.net
On the list and PROUD of it.
6 years ago
apple computers gave slpc a million dollars, maybe they are using slpc to launder money?
6 years ago
The money paid out by George Soros to shell organizations, SPLC being one, for the sole purpose of denying other Americans their Constitutional Rights through all forms of intimidation including intended violence. It’s time that the Government seriously investigate how George Soros has been spending his money here and abroad to undermine the USA, Israel and other Allies (Democracies). Let’s not forget he’s admitted to hanging signs at age 13-14 directing fellow Hungarian Jews to the Train Stations for the NAZIs from where they disembarked for Aushewich. His family remained untouched during the War. The Capitalism he wants to tear down in this country is the means by which he made his fortune here and in England in the Futures Trading Markets. The Isrsel he would like to see replaced with Palestine was the only Refuge in the World before and after Hitlers Death Camps and collaborating Jew-hunting murdering groups of individual European Countries until Great Britian closed the doors. Also the only refuge when 1million Jews living in Arab Countries were kicked out of there homes. SPLC is only one orgaization & strategy in the juggernaut of Soros plan to push forwar the Far Left and tear down Our Way of life in the USA. The SLPC is meant to blur and make as one legitimate Conservative Groups lumped with the KKK and then the Media performs a Fait Accomplis by reporting the group as a Far Right or According to the SPLC Racist XYZ Organization. Once the public hears enough times it becomes their rock solid belief. Some else did this already in the 1930s/40s Minister of Propaganda Goebbels for Adolph Hitler
6 years ago
Reply to
Jack
Soros is A WAR CRIMINAL,I cannot grasp just WHY he is still polluting the planet with his every breath.WHY hasn’t Mossad ended his miserable existence? He and his multitude of shell orgs NEED to be designated as a Criminal Organization by the USA and ALL arrested under RICO and every single one of his anti-freedom orgs dismantled and funds confiscated and used to help build the US Mexico wall.It’s no less than Hitlery WOULD have done had George the NAZI FERRET managed to rig ANOTHER US Election.
THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP !
Semper Fi
http://www.silverbulletgunoil.net
On the list and PROUD of it.
6 years ago
The headline issue is based on a complete misunderstanding of what these line items in the NGO’s budget mean. The $20m in “Salaries” of course includes all the money the SPLC pays to the staff of 70-some lawyers who are working on the various issues for the NGO’s clients that form the heart of their mission. The $60k “legal services” line item would be the amount the NGO paid to OUTSIDE lawyers to represent THE ORGANIZATION ITSELF in some kind of matter, either advising it on transactional matters, or representing the organization itself as a party to some kind of litigation. That is apples and oranges.
6 years ago
they are just shake down artists
